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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Second Edition

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Second Edition

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vCenter Site Recovery manage is an orchestration tool used to automate disaster recovery in a manner that no other solution does. It is programmed to leverage array-based replication and VMware's proprietary vSphere Replication engine. The book begins by talking about the architecture of SRM and guides you through the procedures involved in installing and configuring SRM to leverage array-based replication. You will then learn how to protect your virtual machines by creating Protection Groups and validate their recoverability by testing recovery plans and even performing failover and failback. Moving on, you will learn how to install and configure vSphere Replication as a standalone disaster recovery solution. It also guides you through the procedures involved in configuring SRM to leverage vSphere replication. Finally, you will learn how to deploy and configure vRealize Orchestrator and its plugin for SRM and vSphere Replication.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback

In the previous chapter, you learned how to create protection groups and recovery plans. Recovery plans are nothing but precreated workflows for the recovery of failed sites. In this chapter, you will learn how to test the recovery plans that are already created, and how to use them to perform a failover, planned migration, reprotect, and failback.

Here is a list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Testing a recovery plan

  • Performing a planned migration

  • Performing a disaster recovery (failover)

  • Performing a forced recovery

  • Reprotecting an SRM site

  • Performing a failback to an SRM protected site

  • IPv4 customization rules

  • Configuring VM recovery properties